Anger

By

18lzytwner

Chapter 1

Six months passed since Robbie Alvarez's conviction and the fall was beginning to reach its midway point. Olivia stood outside the precinct breathing in deeply the smell of the city in October. Halloween was two weeks away and she wondered if the streak of craziness they'd been dealing with would be over soon.

The beginning of the month had led to a surge in assaults reported which was odd considering that usually after the first few weeks of the fall school season up until Halloween things were pretty quiet. They had spent the first two weeks of the month working a lot of overtime and closed about ten cases which had made Casey half-joke, half-seriously tell them that she liked them and all but she needed a break.

"Whatcha doing out here baby girl? That wind is brutal," Fin walked up to her as he'd just left his car. Despite being around lots of tall buildings the wind could get ugly down at ground level at this time of year.

"Getting some fresh air. Munch burned the coffee and I can't take the smell today considering he did it just a few days ago," she explained.

"We need a new coffee machine," Fin shook his head.

"Captain said he requisitioned one about two years ago…" she chuckled. Fin rolled his eyes and the two of them headed inside.

"Sweet Jesus. You guys having a bad coffee day?" A shorter, African American woman asked Desk Sergeant Lopez. The woman was dressed in a blue pant suit and everything looked like it was in place despite the wind outside. In her hand was a black leather briefcase.

"The Sergeant upstairs brought the coffee maker he wrecked down to the dumpster about ten minutes ago," the Desk Sergeant shook her head.

"I'm here to see Captain Cragen. He should be expecting me," the woman smiled.

"Let me call up," Lopez picked up the phone but stopped when he saw Fin and Olivia walk through the door.

"Fin! Olivia!" They walked over and gave Lopez a questioning look but that look disappeared from Fin's face when he saw who was at the desk.

"Angela! What brings you here?" He smiled and pulled her in for a hug.

"You know, always wanted to travel to the big city," she joked.

"Angela?" Olivia didn't know who this woman was but she seemed friendly.

"Detective Olivia Benson I'd like you to meet Detective Angela Jones, one of Buffalo's finest," Fin made the introductions.

"Oh nice to meet you but what brings you all the way downstate?" Olivia shook her hand.

"A case believe it or not. My perp didn't heads for the border like we all thought he would," Angela explained, referring to the Canadian border which was only minutes away from Buffalo's downtown.

"That bad huh?" Fin asked as the three of them started to head for the elevators.

"It's not good," Angela's happy mood suddenly shifted and Olivia wondered what had happened.

"We'll do all we can to help," she promised.

"I appreciate that," the detective smiled. They rode up the elevators and then walked out onto their floor. Once inside the bullpen, Munch greeted the detective much like Fin had and then showed her to the Captain office, informing her that it was his privilege.

"Where'd you meet her?" Olivia asked from her desk once the Captain's door had closed and Angela was out of earshot.

"You remember when we were chasing that rapist who liked to wheeny wag in his spare time and we thought he'd fled the jurisdiction a few years back? He had family up in Buffalo and Angela was our local liaison," Fin explained. He and Munch had made the trip since Olivia and Elliot had court.

"Oh that's Angela," Olivia nodded, remembering now.

"So what's going on?" Elliot asked. He'd been sifting through his e-mails and now looked over at Fin.

"Some sort of case she's working," the detective shrugged. Elliot nodded and gave Olivia a quick glance before refocusing on his e-mails.

"Everyone listen up!" Cragen announced as he left his office with Angela right behind him. That made everyone, including the detectives, turn around and look at him.

"Detective Jones came here from BPD and she believes her perp is here in the city. The guy is wanted on multiple rapes and for shooting her partner. I want all hands on deck!" the Captain said.

"This guy shot Manny?" Munch asked.

"How bad is it?" Fin wanted to know.

"It's bad but let me start from the beginning," Angela said. They all nodded and she opened the briefcase, pulled out a picture, and Munch taped it to the board.

"That is Anatoli Volkov. He has beaten and raped three women, we believe he also is tied to a murder of a pro but we can't prove it yet," she started.

"MO?" Elliot asked.

"It's a progression. Our first victim was Natalie McGraw. She was a pro that came to us claiming that one of her dates had gotten rough with her. When Manny and I pressed her, we found out that he'd broken her arm and then taken what he wanted. She gave us access to her medical records and spoke to the nurses who treated her. They could tell she'd been sexually assaulted but since she initially refused to press charges, a rape kit wasn't done. She worked with our sketch artist and that's how we came up with Anatoli.

"The next victim was his girlfriend, Sophie Vasilyev. She was in much worse shape. Broken arm, broken ribs, she was covered in bruises, and her mother found her tied to her bed. Sophie didn't want to finger Anatoli and this is when we found out he had connections to Brighton Beach," Angela took a moment to keep her emotions in check.

"So the rapes aren't part of his connections but given that he knows people…" Olivia left that hanging out there.

"Sophie isn't really willing to testify is she?" Elliot asked.

"We've got her and her mother in protective custody. The final victim, Sarah Flapica, was one of chance. She was working the night shift at a gas station when Anatoli pulled up for gas. We think he was on his way out of town when something happened to piss him off. Sarah was found hours later on the floor behind the counter, slowly bleeding to death. We recovered DNA and matched it to the sample from Sophie. Sarah is still in a medically induced coma.

"My partner, Manny Sandoval, was shot when he and I attempted to arrest him. Manny is still in the hospital," Angela swallowed hard.

"What happened?" Fin pressed, sensing that there had to be more.

"The bastard used armor-piercing bullets. They went right through Manny's vest and the doctor's don't think he'll ever walk again," she told them, by now barely keeping it together. Olivia could understand her pain.

"We're going to get this bastard," Fin said.